Word: mornington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months ago, when he first took office, newspapers all over the world ran pictures of the hardy, silver-haired Prime Minister wearing a rubber wet suit and carrying a spear gun. Holt fished from the rocks, body-surfed in the great Pacific waves that pound southern Australia's Mornington Peninsula, and spent hours with his wife, Zara, exploring rock pools, collecting shells and spearing fish. His greatest delight was snorkeling. "From the moment I put my head under the water," he said, "I was caught. And I've been captured ever since." Last week Harold Holt...
...might do wonders for their morale, Skipper Sturrock herded up all his ambulatory Aussies and dragged them off to Montreal to see Expo. The news from home at least was good. All of Australia is pulling for an upset and praying for one-including a tribe of aborigines on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, who have promised to sing a "wind corroboree" for good luck every day that Dame Pattie races...
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